Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Martin Back On Mat

With John Clarke on his Honeymoon and
Colin Carrott down with the bug along with many others in the Club it was down
to me Martin Clarke to take the session. I was met with surprise and comments
like "What you doing here so early?" "Why have you got your kit".
Yet it did not take me long to get into my stride first came the very UN PC
shouting " Get on the mat my class starts 8pm not 5 minutes past" and
"Get that T shirt off you are supposed to be Sambo/Judo players not a load of wimps"With the British Open just a few days away we kept
away from hard contest and concentrated on Ground Work. First 1/2 hour ground
fighting then the following was plenty of drilling on arm locks, leg locks on
the ground we finished with arm locks from stomach throw, flying arm lock and
leg lock from inner thigh throw (Uchi Mata) .I think everyone enjoyed I did but do not expect me
every week

The BSF Open has a good response we have
fighters from all parts of England North, Northwest, South, West, South East,
Midlands, East, London and from France, Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, USA
and British Army sadly no one from Scotland and Northern Ireland lets hope they
can attend next year.

The BSF is already planning next years
British Open which will be held in the Birmingham Area in March/April 2015. BSF
have decided to run a British Closed Championships/Trials in December to
prepare teams for international events in 2017. This time schedule was used by
the British Judo Association for decades and proved very successful